Releve Virginia Division of Natural Heritage, see http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/documents/nh_plotform_instructions.pdf
Overall Taxon Cover Values are Automatically Calculated?
no
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Field Cover
50
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
A variant of Ammophila breviligulata vegetation occupying the middle, ocean-facing slope of a steep frontal dune in the central part of Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. In this variant Panicum amarum var. amarum is co-dominant (or even dominant) with Ammophila. Total cover is in the 40-60% range, but all of the grasses are half-buried by the constantly blowing and shifting sand.
Plot located on eastern side of frontal dune, east of North Wash Flats Impoundment at a point 2.6 mi NNE of D Pool Dike.
